Our Little Guy is 5. . .

I can't believe Draven is 5. Kurt and I pulled in from Seattle at 4:00 a.m. on Draven's birthday. Needless to say, we were both a little tired! My mom was awesome and ordered a cake while we were gone since she knew I wouldn't have time to make one. During the day Kurt took Draven to pick out a brand new bike since he is outgrowing his old one. Then that night we had a little family party with cake and ice cream.

I love Seattle!

I know, I know. . . you all have heard me say it at least once, I L-O-V-E Seattle! If I could convince Kurt to move back to the Pacific Northwest I would leave tomorrow. Kurt and I were able to go for a quick weekend trip and it was worth every minute of the horrible 13 hour drive. The majority of the time was spent buying supplies and packing a shipping container for my parent's fishing lodge in Alaska but we were also able to fit in some quality friend time. We stayed in the Westin Hotel in downtown Seattle. Have I mentioned how much I love Westin hotels? Their Heavenly beds are, well. . . heavenly! One of the mornings there we met our good friends and old neighbors, the Apfelbeck's, at Maltby Cafe for breakfast. I swear, the Maltby Cafe has the best breakfast in the world, only to be rivaled by the Gazebo on the island of Maui. It was great, I mean really, how can you go wrong when you mix good friends and good food :). Then that night we were able to go to our first ever roller derby bout with our friends, Bob and Starla. It was not at all what I expected and was so much fun! Starla and Bob are a blast, not to mention, that Starla is the best real estate agent EVER! Last but not least, the morning we headed for home we were able to swing by my co-worker and awesome friend, Jude's house. It was so great to see where she lives (she's moved since I was last there). I love her house and the natural area that borders her property. I told her I would pack up and be ready to move in within the week :).

The view from our hotel room.

The super yummy Maltby Cafe with our friends, the Apfelbeck's.
Bob and Starla at the Key Arena in Seattle.
Check out those women. They mean business!

Starla and I messing around.

Easter

We had a great Easter this year. On Saturday we went to the USU Housing easter egg hunt. The weather wasn't the best, actually, it was extremely cold so there wasn't a great turnout which was nice for the kids. Audrik could have gotten a lot more eggs but his poor little hands were frozen! On Sunday we had Easter morning at our house and then went to Preston to dye eggs and have another easter egg hunt.

The Easter Bunny brought a wagon full of treats.Josh, Draven and Maddie. Draven loves his cousins! Audrik was more concerned about the candy then picking up the eggs, imagine that :).
Audrik wearing his candy bucket. We even dyed Chloe. Doesn't she look pretty?
Showing off our eggs.
Kurt helping Audrik. Audrik was a little confused though. . . he kept trying to open the hard boiled eggs to get the candy out :). Then he found one that had been dropped and was cracked. The look on his face when he got it opened and only found the yolk was hilarious.

Date Night

This was date night last week. We decided to go to the shooting range and then to dinner at Debbie's favorite restaurant "Elements". She wanted to make sure and take pictures to show that she was having fun. Debbie was real proud of herself for hitting the target and cardboard with all her shots. She thought she would hit the target a few times and miss the rest, maybe even the cardboard. She shot very well for someone who doesn't shoot often. It didn't help that the wind was blowing and it was freezing cold.

Spring?

April Fools! This is what we found outside this morning. It was a little disappointing but we hope it melts soon. Draven asked if Christmas was here again and if he could go sledding.

Spring Break 2010

For Spring Break this year we decided to go to southern California to a couple of amusement parks with Draven. We were able to go with our upstairs neighbors, the Willsons. Overall the trip was awesome. The weather was perfect, except for the drive down. It was in the mid 80's the entire time we were there. We went to Sea World, Disneyland and California Adventure. Draven was able to go on all the rides except one at Disneyland and two at California Adventure because of his height. We had to coerce him onto several rides due to the screaming and drops we could hear and see from the lines. He was a trooper. At the end of each ride he was excited to have gone but when asked if he wanted to go again it was a quick "no thanks". Audrik had lots of fun hanging out with grandma & grandpa Miller and Bill & Nicole. I am sure he kept them busy with his never ending energy and always getting into things that he was not supposed to while having a good ole time.

Our 8 hour instead of 5 hour drive to St. George was awesome!

We started with our first day at Sea World and Draven fell in love with the Killer Whales.

The seal and walrus show.

This is as close as we could get Draven to touch any of the animals. If you notice in the picture, all he touched was the top of the water. It was the tidal pools with starfish and other little creatures that don't even move.

Draven and Abby were our little navigators while enjoying the ride instead of the walk.

Debbie's favorite were the manatees and sea turtles. The turtles were the size of a small kitchen or card table.

Our second day we went to Disneyland and straight to Toon Town.

Draven loved being able to run around the ship and use all of the cool looking instruments.

On our third day we went to California Adventure and Draven found his favorite characters.

Draven's favorite area was called Bug Land. We went first thing in the morning and there were no lines for any of the rides.

Debbie and I had never been so it was a lot of fun.

We think that Draven had the most fun at the hotel's own little water park.



We could have saved a couple hundred bucks and spent all three days at the water park if it had been up to Draven.

MIA

I would give some good excuse as to why I haven't posted in forever but I don't really have one, so . . . I will just give you the lowdown on what we have been up to.

We have taken some walks around USU campus - I am loving that the weather is getting a little nicer.

Had some quality brother time.

Played with some of the fun new Christmas toys.

I made the boys some capes and masks.

Kurt gave the boys a whole new "look".

and . . . we created our very own torture device. Now, I just wish the boys would take us seriously.